Gloucester May Gain New Bank

July 04, 2003|By Daily Press

GLOUCESTER — A new bank will sit just off Business Route 17 east of the Gloucester Court House village if the Board of Supervisors approves a zoning change.

The Gloucester Planning Commission on Thursday gave its blessing to the proposal by the founders of Colonial Virginia Bank, which would affect nearly eight acres at the south side of Sutton Road. Charles Dawson, representing the bank investors, said his group wanted enough room for future expansion of the bank and to be able to control the kind of development that might follow in that neighborhood.

Existing businesses in the vicinity are a State Farm Insurance office, Sutton's Restaurant, and El Ranchito, a Mexican restaurant. The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society owns land east and south of the parcel.

The bank, being started by local investors, will be a Colonial-style building similar to the one constructed as Peninsula Trust Bank, which is now BB&T Bank, Dawson told the commission.